In this pioneering work of cultural history, historian Anthony Harkins argues that the hillbilly-
in his various guises of" briar hopper,"" brush ape,"" ridge runner," and" white trash"-has …

Page 1 The First American Frontier Wilma A. Dunaway TRANSITION TO CAPITALISM IN
SOUTHERN APPALACHIA, 1700-1860 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 THE FIRST …

In Appalachia's Path to Dependency, Paul Salstrom examines the evolution of economic life
over time in southern Appalachia. Moving away from the colonial model to an analysis …

One of the most divided regions of the Confederacy, East Tennessee was the site of fierce
Unionist resistance to secession, Confederate rule, and the Southern war effort. It was also …

" Groce offers a gracefully written, impressively researched narrative account of the
experience of East Tennessee Confederates during the Civil War era. His analysis raises …

For most of the twentieth century, the prevailing interpretation of nineteenth-century southern
Appalachia pictured a region predominated by a traditional, relatively egalitarian, folk …

During the secession crisis, intertwined geographic, economic, political, and ideological
factors divided East Tennessee from the rest of the Confederate South. So great were the …

One theme largely neglected by backcountry scholars to this point is the process of
integration which allowed the interior as a region to fuse with the larger social and cultural …